About the Authors
- Ali Rostami
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Rostami, Seyed Mohammad Riahi
Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft
* E-mail: alirostami1984@gmail.com, a.rostami@mubabol.ac.ir
Affiliations Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran, Immunoregulation Research Center, Health Research Institute, Babol University of Medical Sciences, Babol, Iran
- Seyed Mohammad Riahi
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Contributed equally to this work with: Ali Rostami, Seyed Mohammad Riahi
Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Cardiovascular Diseases Research Center, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Faculty of Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
- Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis
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Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft
Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- H. Ray Gamble
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Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft
Affiliation National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, United States of America
- Yadolah Fakhri
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Roles Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Environmental Health Engineering, Student Research Committee, School of Public Health, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Malihe Nourollahpour Shiadeh
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Roles Data curation, Methodology
Affiliation Sexual and Reproductive Health Research Center, Mazandaran University of Medical Sciences, Sari, Iran
- Masoud Foroutan
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
- Hamed Behniafar
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Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology
Affiliation Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
- Ali Taghipour
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Roles Data curation
Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
- Yvonne A. Maldonado
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America, Department of Health Research and Policy, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America
- Ali H. Mokdad
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Health Metrics Science and the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Robin B. Gasser
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Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Melbourne Veterinary School, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, Australia
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.